PROGRAM: People’s Movements: Violence and Solidarity in the Southeastern Peripheries of Europe, An Encounter, 15-20 July 2016, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

 

source: Ali Turunz, Belgrade 2016

15^th July, Friday

Opening and informal introductions: Genealogy of LeftEast & the road to Istanbul

Meeting at 7 pm in the Boğaziçi South Campus Central Square (Meydan). The residents of the Boğaziçi Superdorm can meet earlier, at 6:30 pm, at the entrance of the dorm, and then march collectively onto the Meydan. To enter the campus, please, bring an official ID.

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16^th July, Saturday

Periphery, World System, and Decoloniality –

Morning (10:00am-12:30 pm; Ibrahim Bodur Auditorium). Facilitators: Mary Taylor & Mariya Ivancheva

Discussion generating remarks/sharing experience:

• Umut Türem and Saygun Gökarıksel (Boğaziçi University) – Probing the Connections between Turkey and Eastern Europe: People’s Movements, Nation-State, and Periphery
• Rossen Djagalov (LeftEast/ NYU) – Fleeting convergences & long silences between the Middle Eastern & East European lefts in the long twentieth century
• Veda Popovici & Ovidiu Pop (Macaz, Bucharest) – Decoloniality in Romanian art and politics
• Aliona Liasheva, Viktoriia Muliavka (Commons, Kyiv) – Ukraine and World systems theory
• Andras Juhasz (Levi Samit, Belgrade) – Re-articulations of class and neoliberalism in former Yugoslavia

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Afternoon: Istanbul derive Ok Meydanı and Gezi Park/Taksim

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17^th July, Sunday

War, Displacement, and Neoliberalism

Morning (10:00am; Ibrahim Bodur Auditorium). Facilitators Saygun Gökarıksel and Raluca Parvu

Subtheme 1: Turkey

• Seda Altuğ (Boğaziçi University) – Syrian Migrants in Turkey and Beyond
• Ilgın Erdem (University of Massachussets) – Reflections on Violence and Politics
• Haydar Darıcı (University of Michigan) – Kurdish solidarity in Turkey
• Eda Elif Tibet (University of Bern / MİREKOÇ Istanbul) – Mediamaking and activism with refugee adolescents

Subtheme 12 the Balkans

• Dan Cirjan (LeftEast/ CEU) – Migrant waves/generations: discourses on Romanian and Middle Eastern migrants in Europe
• Spyros Marchetos (University of Thessaloniki/EReNSEP) – Fundamental human rights in present-day Europe: the case of the refugees
• Nena Močnik (Ljubljana) – Internal displacement in former Yugoslavia and the current EU border crisis

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Afternoon: visiting AD.DAR Center, Taksim, 5:00pm

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Evening:  Screening of media works by participants and coproducers, Balon, Taksim, 8:30pm

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18^th of July, Monday

Feminist Struggles, Violence, and Neoconservatism

Morning (10:00am; Özger Arnas Hall). Facilitators: Adela Gjorgjoska and Mihnea Panu

• Nükhet Sirman (Boğaziçi University) – Feminist Critique of Human Rights and Violence
• Tamar Qeburia and Tatuli Chubabria (Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center, Tbilisi) – Feminism, periphery, violence, and neoliberal features at workplaces in Georgia
• Görkem Atsungur (AUCA / CEU) – Struggles for the rights of women and sexual minorities rights in Turkey and Kirgizstan
• Feyza Akınerdem (Boğaziçi University/Women’s Initiative for Peace/Recelblog) -neoliberal public culture, cultural polarization and women’s responses to new configurations of biopolitics in turkey as articulated from within the practice of the women’s initiative for peace.
• Anna Nizhnik (Russian Socialist Movement RDS, Moscow) – Feminist struggles on the Russian Left
• Sonja Dragovic (#Građanski Collective, Podgorica) -Women migrants and factory workers in Croatia and Spain
• Sanem Öztürk and Özgül Kaptan (KADAV, Istanbul) – Reflections on Women’s Solidarity

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Afternoon: Meeting with Feminist Groups at Mekan or KADAV, 5:00pm 

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19^th of July, Tuesday

Morning (10:00am; Özger Arnas Hall). Facilitators: William Coker & Rossen Djagalov

Organizing movements

Subtheme 1: moving beyond exclusion: solidarity and communing

• Sonja Stojadinovic and Adela Gjorgjoska (Solidarnost, Skopje) – Organizing on workers’ and migrants’ rights in Macedonia and the Balkan route
• Özge Çelikaslan and Alper Şen of (Artıkişler Collective, Ankara) – Media activism using visual materials to trace stories, spatial movements, collective sharing experiences, and “communing” practices.
• Basak Durgun (George Mason University) – Articulating anti-racist discourse/practice among urban and green movements in Turkey

Subtheme 2: connecting different movements / new movement agency?

• Foti Benlisoy (Baslangic Collective, Istanbul) – Strategies of forming a common front of struggle across social movements against fascist or authoritarian right-wing populism
• Zeynep Serinkaya and Berna Akkızal (Initiative for Freedom of Expression, Istanbul) –  On the (diminishing) freedom of expression in Turkey and the (growing) rights violations under the current regime
• Haris Husaric (Workers University, Tuzla) – New articulations of agency on the Left in Bosnia

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Afternoon: Meeting with Turkish leftist groups (location TBA)

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20th July, Friday
Breakfast discussion: What Is To Be Done (location & time TBA)